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Showing posts with label Google - The Searchology. Show all posts

Thursday, 30 April 2020

Google Meet is now Free





Google Meet is now Free

A big news for the video conferencing service users, the tech giant and leading search engine GOOGLE has announced to make its premium video meetings service "GOOGLE MEET" FREE for all its users from the beginning of the May 2020. This has come at the right time when almost all the corporate and educational institutions are making use of various video calling service to communicate about their workflow. Many questions were raised on many other service providers about misusing the users data. Now, the premium service of Google MEET will be available for FREE to its registered users.

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Monday, 30 December 2013

Google Doodle 2013 on New Year's Eve

Google has posted an animated google doodle on New Year's Eve 2013 bidding goodbye to the year.

The google animated doodle's shows two black speakers on left-right sides and 2,0,1,3 digits are moving steps on the dance floor whereas the digit 4 signifies that the New Year is Waiting
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Friday, 2 August 2013

Google Search as an Online Timer


Do you forgot to call your near and dear one at specific time or you forgot to pick up your laundary. To remind our such activities we set timer in our mobile phone, now Google search has added one more feature to its search by entering timer command in the search box.

example : timer for 1 hour 10 minutes 50 seconds

Thursday, 13 December 2012

What did the World search for in 2012 ? 1.2 trillion searches in 146 languages

You have enjoyed the last twelve months on the Internet, there must be a chance that you might have searched for a term on Internet using Google at least once.

"The Internet and "The Search Engine" gaint has revealed some of the key searches of year 2012. In its annual report of searching - "The Zeitgeist 2012", Google has mentioned global key searches by country.

On the top of the Google search report is Whitney Houston, who passed away in February and surprisingly, the second position in the report is Gangnam style, Hurricane Sandy, iPad3, Diablo 3 and Kate Middleton made up the rest top 5 position.

The top ten global search term.

  1. Whitney Houston
  2. Gangnam Style
  3. Hurricane sandy
  4. iPad3
  5. Diablo 3
  6. Kate Middleton
  7. Olympics 2012
  8. Amanda Todd
  9. Michale Clarke Duncan
  10. BBB12


Friday, 30 November 2012

Gmail announces attachments upto 10 GB


If you are a Gmail user then it will give you immense pleasure to know this, Gmail has announced to support attachments of 10 GB. Earlier it allowed the user to attached the file of maximum file size 25 MB. Google has integrated Google Drive with the Gmail, thus allowing the user to insert the files of Google Drive as an attachment with mail.

With Google Drive, Google allows it Gmail user to send files of 10 GB that is 400 times larger than the traditional attachment file size of 25 MB. Also the all recipients will have access to the latest version of the file.


Wednesday, 10 October 2012

Google launches its free SMS services for Gmail Users in India

Google has extended its free SMS services for Indian users. The service is already offered to 51 countries like Asia, Africa and North America. This Gmail SMS service allows its users to send free text messages to mobile phones using Gmail Chat.

In India Gmail SMS service is offered on 8 gaint mobile service operators: Idea, Aircel, MTS, Reliance, Tata DoCoMo, Vodafone,Tata indicom & Loop Mobile in few states of India Gujarat, Delhi, Mumbai, Andaman and Nicobar, North East, Assam, Bihar, West Bengal and Kolkata)

Friday, 17 August 2012

Google Updates Android Voice Search, adding 13 new languages covering 100m users


As the war over voice is still on, today Google has announced about its updation in Voice Search for Android devices that will supported more 13 languages, bringing the total to 42 languages for the regional accents in about 46 countries. As per today’s updates Google claims about around 100 million Andriod device owners will start using Voice Search. 

·         Basque
·         Bulgarian
·         Catalan
·         European Portuguese
·         Finnish
·         Galician
·         Hungarian
·         Icelandic
·         Norwegian
·         Romanian
·         Serbian
·         Slovak
·         Swedish


Wednesday, 8 August 2012

Google adds gmail conversation in search results


Google adds quality to its search results by filling the gap between the its search engine and its gmail service in its latest attempt to deliver a personal responses more quickly.

On Wednesday Google has release its experimental feature that will allow google search results to list out the stored messages of user’s account that will be relevant to the search query. For example if you are typing “India” than your search query will be responded with the links having high page rank along with this on the right hand side of the search result screen, you will find the messages that contain the term of your search query. i.e it will list out the stored messages that include the word “India”.

To start making use of this feature you have to sign up at the Google Search Field Trial. Only first one million users of Gmail will be allowed initially to use this service out of its huge 425 million of users which was started  eight years ago.  When Gmail service was launched it offered 1GB of space to its users, which is today extended upto 10 GB which offers large storage space to store personal information of the user.

Wednesday, 25 July 2012

Search giant Google adds 34 button virtual scientific calculator

We use Google to search the contents or information over the web or to know the weather, unit conversion, images or to know about quotes and fast calculations.

We all are aware of Google search's mathematical calculation techniques assembled within the search engine. But recently Google has added a virtual calculator which will help the Googlers to perform arithmetic & scientific calculation.

On typing the word "Calculator" in the Google search box. It will display the virtual calculator below it with 34 buttons.


Tuesday, 24 July 2012

Google halts new order of 16GB Nexus 7

With the superb launch of the Google Nexus 7 tablet pc, the tech gaint is getting the orders out of expecations.

Last week the company post a message on its online store to inform its customers that the order will be delayed by two or more weeks and has stopped taking more orders.

The 16 GB Nexus 7 tablet is available the at Kmart, Sam's Club, GameStop, Staples, Office Depot, and Staples  in Canada.

The Google Nexus 7 is the only tablet pc which runs on the latest versio of the Android known as Jelly Bean. Which comes with 8 GB and 16 GB storage capacity and built by Asus.

Friday, 29 June 2012

Google announces NEXUS 7


Google on its fifth Google IO 2012 conference, announced its small computer known as "Nexus 7" which will work on the Android Mobile operating system version 4.1 named as "Jelly Bean", designed for Google Play(Google Play - Its Google Online movies, music, games, books and apps services).

Google along with ASUS company will release the product in the month of mid-July, in the first round of the launch the tablet will be available in America, UK, Australia and Canada.

The device will be available in the mid of July at price of $199 equal to the Amazon Kindle Fire.

The tablet features are as follow.
  • Display : 7'' inch with 1280x800 pixels resolution
  • Processor : Tegra 3 quad-core CPU and 12-core GPU
  • Camera : Front facing camera
  • Connectivity : Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and NFC
  • Battery Power : 7 hours Playback and 900 hours standby
  • Weight : 340 grams 


Wednesday, 2 May 2012

Know 10 things about Google Drive

Google, few days back has launched its Google Drive cloud-storage services that will allow the users to upload about 5 GB data on Google server for free.

So before you just start using this Google Drive cloud service, you must know some of its fundamental features.



  1. Google Drive is the newly cloud storage service offered by Google, it will serve its user to store online data with the mean of accessing them from any geographical location at any time, thus allow the user to create, share and collaborate all their stuff.
  2. Download a Google Drive application, the user will get a folder on his computer system, and simply drag and drop the files. All the data stored in this folder of your computer system will be on the cloud. Thus user can access this data from anywhere from drive.google.com or from other computers and also it includes mobile devices.
  3. Google Drive has gifted first 5 GB of storage per account for free. For additional storage space user has to pay $2.49/month.
  4. Users can further upgrade to 100 GB for $4.49/month and 1 TB for $49.99/month. Thus for the paid users it will expand the Gmail account storage upto 25GB.
  5. Download Google Drive on your PC or Drive app on their Android tabs or mobile phones.
  6. When you make any changes to the file on the Google Drive it will be automatically reflected(save) on any of your devices.
  7. Upto the give size on the Google Drive, users can have any numbers of files or folder, that they store on their hard drives, in a Google Drive.
  8. Google Drive includes Google docs, so it offers users to with others in real time on spreadsheets, documents and presentations.
  9. To start will Google Drive, visit www.drive.google.com the page loads with the message "Your Google Drive is not ready yet". So simply click on "Notify me" button, it states: "We'll email you at #####@gmail.com" (i.e your email address) when your Google Drive is ready to be used.
  10. Google Drive allows users to attach photos from Drive to post in Google+. In short time, Google will also allow users to attach the data from Drive to emails in Gmail.

Tuesday, 24 April 2012

Google launches Google Drive


Rumours were spreaded about the launch of Google Drive in few months, but today it announced Google Drive launched on its official Google Blog page. For the free plan it will provide 5 GB web space and to paid plan $2.49/month with 25 GB of space that will also increase your Gmail inbox space, further if you want more than pay $4.99/month and for 16 TB pay $800/month.





Google Drive will allow the user to make use of their files at any time any where in real time. On sharing the contents with other, it allows the user to add and see the comments given on your shared contents.

It also uses Image Recognition technique, so when you drag and drop any of the picture it will let you search those image by the location you have visited.

It supports OCR (Optical Character Recognition) that will help you to convert your scanned text contents into soft text contents and allows you to search the text in the scanned file.

Gideon Sundback celebrated by Google Doodle

Gideon Sundback is not a man, who invented zip but made it work perfect in every one's daily life. Today its 132nd birth anniversary of Gideon Sundback. The google doodle celebrated his birthday by dedicated today's google home page with a vertical giant zip, which when pull down opens the home page of the giant search engine.


From this year onwards, the google doodle had came up with the amazing service by honouring the iconic personalities and festivals around the world

Friday, 10 February 2012

Get ready for Google's entertainment device

Google is about to launch its new entertainment device called "Project Tungsten". This device will serve as music system that connects to your speakers or home sterio system. The device comes with Google Android operating system, so you can enjoy all the online music files.

This device can be control by your smartphones or tablets and numbers of devices can be connected to play music on speakers system throughtout  a room.

At this time, Google defines this device as concept rather than product.

Thursday, 12 January 2012

Google Science Fair 2012

Google is googling for the young bright scientist of age between 13-18, in association with its parterns CERN, The LEGO Group, National Geographic and Scientific American.

Today Google annouce the second Google Science Fair and world's largest online science fair.

Google Science Fair opens : January 12, 2012
Last date submissions : April 1, 2012 at 11:59 GMT (or 6:59pm ET/3:59pm PT).
Prizes : $50,000/-, 10 days trip at Galapagos Islands, along with National Geographic Explorer
            or
            Internship at Google
            or
            any one of its partners.


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Tuesday, 10 January 2012

Google+ users get ready for the personalized search results

The giant search engine Google launches its new service called "Search, Plus Your World" , this service of Google will aid the G+ users to search the photos, posts and many more of you and your friends.

At Google, we always want to return the most comprehensive and relevant answers to your questions, and many times those answers are in the open public Web, but many times those answers are in your own personal content,” Singhal said. “This is the first time we’re bringing personal content right into the results page.”
With the time, Google is transforming itself as search engine, which was earlier bound to display the content on the given term but now it will understand people and relationships too. Google transformation as Social Search which comes up with the three main features.

1. Personal Results.
This feature will help to get information for you, like Google+ images and posts which belongs to you as well as those are shared with you, you will only be able to see it on your results pages.

2. Profiles in Search
This feature aids you to search people are closer to you or might be interested in following.

3. People and Pages
This feature will search Google+ profiles and Google+ pages on specific topics like product, service or area of interest details.

Thursday, 1 December 2011

Google Vertical Menu



Google in last few months have great transformation in its look. After the UI change for gmail, blogger, google home page with horizontal menu. Today it came up with the vertical menu, just move mouse cursor on the down arrow image, it will popup the menu with black background.

Thursday, 3 November 2011

India Get Your Business Online


Google announces free website with free domain and webspace for small and medium size business. Google promises to provide this facility to the 5,00,000 SMB (Small and Medium size Businesses) for the next three years.

Google will provide the following services

·         Free, easy-to-build, professional website
·         Free .in domain name and hosting for one year
·         Free email addresses
·         Free 365 days support

There are near about 100 million Indian remain online through PCs, mobile phones and many others gadgets. There are about 80,00,000 SMBs in the nation out it about 4,00,000 businesses are online and only 1,00,000 businesses have good quality of websites.

With this initiative of Google, India will be the 19th country, under this initiatives of having '.in' domain, web-hosting, all kinds of technical supports through phone, email or chat, Google email-id and athletics.




Friday, 7 October 2011

Google Gravity

Define Google Gravity
A project by mrdoob.com, where all the webpages follows the law of Gravitional Fall. All the webpages will be falling down. So check it out, type google.com in your browser address bar->Go to Settings->uncheck Google Instant Option


Now, type Google Gravity in Google search box & click I'm feeling lucky button and you will be redirected to Google Gravity Page.